High above the ancient city of Cusco, at over three and a half thousand metres in the thin air of the Peruvian Andes, stand some of the most astonishing stone

From a narrow strip on the Atlantic edge of Europe, the Portuguese launched the age of discovery and linked the continents, a seafaring people of warmth, melancholy, and saudade.

In the mountains of northern Haiti stand the ruins of Sans-Souci, the baroque palace of Henri Christophe, a former slave who crowned himself king and built a court to rival Europe’s.

There is a small yellow palace on a hill in Potsdam that was never meant to impress anyone. That, oddly, is what makes it unforgettable. When you climb the six

On the edge of Vienna, at the end of a long ceremonial approach and surrounded by vast formal gardens rising to a hilltop pavilion, stands one of the greatest palaces

Just a short drive from Heidelberg and Mannheim, the small town of Schwetzingen is home to one of the most enchanting palace gardens in Europe. Schwetzingen Palace was the summer

Shaniwar Wada in Pune was the mighty fortress-seat of the Peshwas of the Maratha Empire. Explore its spiked gates, lost palace, haunting legend and the grandeur of a vanished power.

Some places seem to belong more to legend than to history, and Sigiriya is one of them. Rising almost two hundred meters sheer from the jungle plains of central Sri

Just outside Bukhara stands the Palace of the Moon and the Stars, the summer retreat of the last emirs, where Bukharan craft and imperial Russian taste met on the eve of the monarchy’s fall.

In the very heart of Munich, the capital of Bavaria, stands one of the largest and most magnificent city palaces in all of Germany, a sprawling complex of buildings, courtyards,